Re: [O] [babel] Commenting out src blocks for tangling

[Sebastien Vauban]

Hi Rainer,

Rainer M Krug wrote:
> On 28/02/13 10:30, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
>> Bastien wrote:
>>> Rainer M Krug <address@hidden> writes:
>>> 
>>>> I agree - COMMENTing a subtree should automatically disable tangling of
>>>> code blocks in the subtree. Would this something which could be
>>>> introduced easily, as it seems there are quite a few who assumed that it
>>>> would be doing it?
>>> 
>>> This is now the case in master:
>>> http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/commit/?id=8e0b45
>> 
>> Does it work as well for the `:noexport:' tag?
>
> I don't think it should. Tangling is something different to export, so there
> should not be ay interactions between the two in this respect. On the other
> hand, COMMENT is generic - it is a COMMENT and does not concern anything. So
> it is applicable for tangling as well.
>
> I would actually say it would be counterintuitive if :noexport: would
> influence tangling as it is governed by a completely different approach in
> org as well as in what I am doing with the org file.

I've always used :noexport: instead of COMMENT (as I hate the visual clutter
of that wide keyword). So, for me, they were equivalent.

You must be right, though, that they aren't: COMMENT seems more generic than
just export. So, dismiss my request.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban